RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117179900529598888

BTW do UK citizens really need visas to enter USA? inquiring minds want to know

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/115664123221310113

today’s #AltTxt #yaddayadda:

❝ Time for your annual reminder that, according to A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit makes 15 shillings a week.

Adjusted for inflation, that's $530.27/wk, $27,574/yr, or $13.50/ hr.

Most Americans on minimum wage earn less than a Dickensian allegory for destitution. ❞

#capitalism #fascism #precariat #abolishBillionaires

is this happening to other people: my insurance is declining prescriptions for generic medications which, for decades, they forced me to use.

my pharmacist called incredibly confused because the insurance is declining payment for what they enforced for ages. now the insurance company is demanding my doctors re-issue the Rx for the brand name medication.

what the hell is going on?!?!?

whomever at Google decided USAmericans do NOT speak Spanish and need to have translated any comments on Google Maps for Spain, needs to be taken to the woodshed and not even thrown to the pigs for feed. just burn everything to the ground and salt the earth.

THIS IS TECH FASCISM.

i have degoogled my life as much as possible, so when am smacked with the shit Google forces on people, it makes me beyond irate.

like Michael Jordan, i take it personally.

FUCK YOU GOOGLE, FASCISTAS DE MIERDA

UPDATE:

don't want to leave this thread on a down note.

please believe me when i tell you billionaires ―and the whole globalization system that supports them― are the enemy.

globalization is just the fascism of WW2 dictators but in business suits.

we need a real wave of antifascist movements: locally, nationally, world wide; all interconnected but none centrally controlled.

we need a wave of real antifascist movements, with or without Democrats.

this is the end of USA as i knew it in my 58 years of life.

but worse: these wars of empire will be ecocide.

the world cannot sustain this endless growth madness

but deluded people who burn to a crisp for lack of melanin think they’re gonna outsmart The Earth.

are you ready to capitulate to the American Dream madness?

it’s absolutely deluded to live like y’all not gonna die under a Thiel/Musk regime. because that's who Trump/Vance represent.

that's why a war, and a draft will be coming.

Ukraine and Gaza and Venezuela and Iran are all about the petromafia’s long con game.

are y’all ready to go to war?

are y’all ready to see your sons and daughters comply with a draft?

are you ready to roll over just so you can pretend that paying your mortgage will buy you a normalcy the rest of us never had?

are you ready to pretend your whiteness is gonna save you?

i fucking hate being right.

Biden was the biggest mistake Democrats needed to rebuke, not embrace.

because he was the billionaires’ choice.

thank Michael Bloomberg, the guy that redefined corporatist fascism.

and thank the machiavellians in the Democratic Party who thought they could outsmart the fascists.

like embracing that fucking Trump deal with the Saudis.

or pussyfooting Putin and his invasion of Ukraine.

it’s not just about war over there.

are you ready for more surveillance, more cops, more violence?

what are you going to do in the next few weeks, months, years?

do y’all have any contingency plans?

do you have that kind of money?

do you have the means to survive the full-blown fascism?

GAZA is just a shorthand in this game of chess. so is UKRAINE. and VENEZUELA.

are you really ready to have a Thiel/Musk presidency telling you to suck it and get ready for war with Iran?

are you ready for an invasion of Venezuela?

are you ready for a draft?

all for server farms cranking up the lies of AI?

Biden was always a huge mistake.

he was the billionaire bankers’ dude.

he was the old financial oligarchs dude.

what we have since since the financial coup of 2008, is a battle between different factions of the oligarchy, trying to wrest control from one another.

it took 20 years for the petromafia to manufacture enough techbro billionaires to consolidate power.

after all, it was the techbros who were employees of the bankers.

now they are the bankers.

i had a sliver of hope that things would work out, but you can't in a system where whatever they say is what got them the votes cannot be audited.

33% more Latino men voted republican this time around?

that doesn't track.

but history did show us how all the Jewish collaborators ended up killed or exiled.

so there is that.

blackbox voting.

plausible deniability.

killing of newspapers and blogs.

the petromafia finally got all the billionaires to follow their lead.

thank Dubya for last night’s results.

blackbox voting in Texas is what got him into power in 2000 and why the HAVA exists.

he went on record saying he wanted all across the country what Texas had back in 2000.

the petromafia now gets to have their war with Iran and invade Venezuela.

all because they got the Saudis to finally meet their price.